Bianca Pinheiro (Rio de Janeiro, September 21, 1987) is a Brazilian comics artist and illustrator. She graduated from Graphic Arts by UTFPR and did postgraduate studies in Comics by the Grupo Educacional Opet.[1][2]

Bianca Pinheiro
Bianca Pinheiro in 2017 Comic Con Experience.
Born21 September 1987 Edit this on Wikidata
Rio de Janeiro Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationComics artist Edit this on Wikidata
WorksBear, Dora, Mônica - Força Edit this on Wikidata
Awards
  • Troféu HQ Mix for best new talent (Dora, Bear, 2015)
  • Troféu HQ Mix for best youth publication (Mônica - Força, 2017)
  • Troféu HQ Mix for best independent publication (Alho-Poró, 2018) Edit this on Wikidata

Bianca began publishing webcomics in 2012. Her main work is Bear, which tells the story of a lost girl who befriends a bear. Three printed volumes of the webcomic were launched by Editora Nemo in 2014, 2015 and 2016. In 2017, the book was launched in France by the publisher La Boîte à bulles entitled Raven et l'Ours. Between 2012 and 2015, Bianca also published a series of short comics online in her Tumblr, in Portuguese and in English.[3][4][2][5][6]

In 2015, Bianca won the Troféu HQ Mix, the main Brazilian comic book award, in the category "New talent (writer)" for her work in the horror graphic novel Dora. The book, published the previous year independently, was republished in 2016 by the publisher house Nemo, which had already released the printed editions of Bear.[7][8][9]

Among her main works are the independent comics Meu Pai é Um Homem da Montanha (written by Greg Stella, 2015) and Alho-Poró (2017), both financed by crowdfunding. She and Greg also published Eles Estão Por Aí (2018), by Todavia. She also did illustrations for several books, such as the children's book Palavras, Palabras (written by Lucio Luiz, Marsupial Editora, 2015) and the illustrated books Mônica(s) (many illustrators, Panini Comics, 2013) and Androides Sonham com Ovelhas Elétricas? (Aleph, 2017, Brazilian edition of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, with special illustrations in honor of the book's 50th anniversary).[10][11][12][13][14]

In 2016, she launched the graphic novel Mônica - Força, part of the Graphic MSP label of Panini Comics, which brings new stories of the classic characters of Mauricio de Sousa created by independent Brazilian comics artists. This graphic novel won the Troféu HQ Mix of "best youth publication" in 2017[15][16]

Bibliography edit

  • Bear volume 1 (Nemo, 2014)[3]
  • Dora (independent, 2014)[7]
  • Bear volume 2 (Nemo, 2015)[4]
  • Meu Pai é Um Homem da Montanha (written by Greg Stella, independent, 2015)
  • Bear volume 3 (Nemo, 2016)
  • Mônica - Força (Panini Brasil, 2016)[15]
  • Alho-Poró (independent, 2017)[13]
  • Eles Estão Por Aí (written by Greg Stella, Todavia, 2018)[14]

References edit

  1. ^ "Quadrim Entrevista - Bianca Pinheiro" (in Portuguese). Quadrim. July 3, 2014.
  2. ^ a b "Quadrinista brasileira é convidada para feira de Gotemburgo" (in Portuguese). Ministério da Cultura. March 8, 2016. Archived from the original on July 7, 2018. Retrieved June 8, 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Editora Nemo leva webcomics nacionais para o formato impresso" (in Portuguese). Universo HQ. July 2, 2014.
  4. ^ a b "Bear 2, Gata Garota e O Mundo de Aisha, lançamentos da Editora Nemo" (in Portuguese). Universo HQ. February 25, 2015.
  5. ^ "Bianca Pinheiro já é destaque no cenário de quadrinistas do Brasil" (in Portuguese). O Barquinho Cultural. July 25, 2016.
  6. ^ "Raven & l'ours - Par Bianca Pinheiro - La Boîte à Bulles" (in French). Actua BD. August 14, 2017.
  7. ^ a b "Dora (independente)" (in Portuguese). Universo HQ. October 3, 2014.
  8. ^ "Os vencedores do 27º Troféu HQ Mix" (in Portuguese). Universo HQ. August 6, 2015.
  9. ^ "Editora Mino relança Dora, de Bianca Pinheiro" (in Portuguese). Universo HQ. August 26, 2016.
  10. ^ "Veja a lista completa dos 150 artistas do livro Mônica(s)" (in Portuguese). Universo HQ. October 25, 2013.
  11. ^ "Oficina de quadrinhos gratuita para crianças na Primaverinha dos Livros" (in Portuguese). Universo HQ. June 3, 2015.
  12. ^ "Livro que inspirou o filme Blade Runner ganha edição comemorativa" (in Portuguese). Diário Catarinense. October 4, 2017. Archived from the original on July 11, 2018. Retrieved July 21, 2018.
  13. ^ a b "HQs brasileiras - Angola Janga e Alho Poró" (in Portuguese). Omelete. February 15, 2018.
  14. ^ a b "Na HQ "Eles Estão por Aí", Bianca Pinheiro e Greg Stella arriscam-se a serem incompreendidos" (in Portuguese). Zero Hora. June 5, 2018.
  15. ^ a b "Bianca Pinheiro, a curitibana que recriou a Mônica de Mauricio de Sousa" (in Portuguese). Gazeta do Povo. September 12, 2016.
  16. ^ "HQMix 2017: Conheça os vencedores de 2017" (in Portuguese). Terra Zero. September 4, 2017.